her cities he could not at the moment
recall--was at hand.

It showed, in the Learned Judge's opinion, that the Navy should at once
be strengthened, the Board Schools increased, and the Asylums for all
those who were mentally afflicted, and therefore so unlike themselves,
should immediately be enlarged throughout the country, in order to cope
with the extra call upon them that such a state of things as they had
listened to that day might necessitate.

Furthermore, the Learned Judge remembered with gratitude the many
petitions to the Royal Family, who, he was thankful to note, were never
afflicted or influenced by any imagination whatsoever; therefore he
begged that those petitions might be increased fourfold
for--for--reasons which at that moment he found it impossible to
explain.

He furthermore would remember with gratitude, and would increase if
possible, the numbers of institutions for the blind, not to mention the
deaf. During this action they had listened in very truth, and not
unmoved, to people who had been blind. (Here a faint titter being
heard in Court, the Learned Judge added reprovingly--)

He did not intend his last remark as a joke, having regard to the
evidence one man had given. No, it was no matter upon which to joke.
The blind were there before them, and he had used the expression the
deaf, inasmuch that some of those before him had heard too much.

To hear too much was worse than not hearing enough. One of the Jury at
this critical point, as if speaking upon impulse: "Hear! hear!"

His Lordship paused in passionate surprise; indignantly wondering
whether or not the Gentleman of the Jury, whose face appeared to be
covered with purposeless pimples, had really intended his last remark
to be ambiguous.

Upon feeling himself reassured upon this point, the Learned Judge
remarked: "Any more unseemly interruptions of this nature, and I shall
clear the Court, not--ahem!--personally, but--er--vicariously, so to
speak. Where was I?" (consulting notes). "Yes, at the House of
Commons. The House of Commons, whose common sense as a body have
helped to make the--ahem!--Irish and the English as one."

Where was the House of Commons now? He was thankful to say, where it
had always been.

Would any one of the Members of that House believe that Oliver
Cromwell, who had stood so long outside, had condescended to alight
from his pedestal to shout vulgar abuse and brawling words at King
Richard and King